Cloud Music Library

Hi tt2,

we won the battle, thanks to you and your advice.

This is what happened:

I did:

Backup using iTunes

Restore as a new device

Restore (I did not know what to expect but the iTunes library had 0 songs)

Then I tried to Sync with iTunes. It did not work (conflicts with Apple Music, I think)

Tried Sync with Finder and It worked!!!!!!! my music Library on the Max Pro had 28K songs

in a long time instead of 55K.

I wanted to thank you for your interest in solving this problem. I will definitely tell Verizon

about the problem that caused Transfer...

Thanks again!

OK, what I call my master library is in the mini, and I add CDs once in a while. Then, once in a while I would like to add to my phone what is not still there. That is what I call Sync the mini to my phone.

I was doing this for years, ALL the music is mine, I have bought it through the years, using iTunes on a Mac Air tuning Mojave.

All I needed to do was to connect my phone and say Sync. iTunes would add to my phone the CDs that were not there.

The first time that I tried to do this with the new phone (Max Pro), iTunes added ALL the music to my phone, not just the one that was not there. So, in my phone, every album had every song twice.

Then some people suggested using Finder, same thing...

I started asking for a way to delete all the songs from the phone, that way when finder would add ALL the songs to my phone, I would end up with a full copy of my master on the phone. Somebody suggested delete The Whole App, I did but when I was downloading the app from the App Store, it would come with ALL the songs that were there before I deleted the App.

Then I thought that maybe buying Apple Music ($7.99/Mo) it could be done, because "without buying Apple Music the 'Sync Library' option would not appear".

I understand why they want me to turn it off, they don't want me to steal the music from Apple Music. I really don't care about the music in Apple Music.

Well, if I want to sync, I have to buy Apple Music but then when I try to sync, they ask me to turn it off.

All I want is to sync my music, I don't care about Apple Music or its content.

Thank you for helping, tt2...

I tried your advice. I turned off the Sync Music on the phone and tried again.

I connected the phone to the mini, the phone appeared on the left part of Music, clicked on the

little phone and selected Sync Entire library. since the 'Sync Library', was off. it continued.

It copied the entire library.

So, I ended with 55K songs on my phone instead of 27K, that is what the Master library has.

What am I doing wrong???

Thanks

Hi tt2,

Now that my Max Pro music library is pretty much ruined, my method to restore it is to use Verizon Transfer. it supposeddly makes an image of the old phone in the new phone. In my case I went from a iPhone X to la Max Pro.

You don't suppose that the method I follow to recreate the iPhone has something to do with the problem, do you??

If you think it might have something to do with the problem I can follow the instructions in Erratic Sync, just tell me what to use to backup/restore.

Thanks

Yes, exactly. Before syncing the phone and the Mini had 27k each. After the syncing, the phone has 55K.

I will take a look art Erratic Syncing